Time To Walk The Walk

After the bombshell dropped by connections of Luxembourg (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) on Friday, the door to the Epsom Derby has been well and truly kicked open and suddenly, the quintet lining up for Saturday's Listed SBK Derby Trial at Lingfield have a clearer path to the Blue Riband. Godolphin's Walk of Stars (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) is of obvious interest in the race in which the fellow Charlie Appleby-trained Adayar (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) met with defeat 12 months ago and he is equipped for it, being a descendant of the blue-hen Magnificient Style whose son Percussionist (Ire) (Sadler's Wells) took this in 2004. He followed Hurricane Lane (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) in winning Newbury's 10-furlong Dubai Duty Free Golf World Cup British EBF Conditions S. Apr. 17, but the two rivals he faced that day have subsequently dented the form. Appleby is keen to speed up his education.

“He has done a lot of his racing on conventional tracks, so we wanted to challenge him a bit more,” he said, referring to the Epsom-like terrain of this circuit.

 

Zechariah Has His Say

Aquis Farm and Manton Park's Zechariah (Ire) (Nathaniel {Ire}) beat Westover (GB) (Frankel {GB}) convincingly in the Haynes, Hanson & Clark Conditions S. at Newbury in September and he is up markedly in trip having run sixth in the G3 Craven S. at Newmarket Apr. 13.

Trainer Martyn Meade admits that Guineas trial was the wrong direction to take. “He's doing everything right and I think you can put the Craven to one side, as that probably wasn't the right race to run him in,” he said of the grandson of the 2006 GI E. P. Taylor S. and GI Del Mar Oaks heroine Arravale (Arch).

 

Oaks Clues In Abundance

Naas stages the G3 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Blue Wind S., with Moyglare Stud's Curragh maiden winner and 'TDN Rising Star' Eclat de Lumiere (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) taking on Takaya Shimakawa's Tosen Lydia (Ire) (The Gurkha {Ire}) and Ballydoyle's Dundalk Apr. 12 scorer Lily Pond (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in a fascinating tussle between three unbeaten fillies. While the runners are entering the stalls, the winner of Lingfield's Listed SBK Oaks Trial will be coming back in and who is to say, after a 100% week at Chester, that it won't be Aidan O'Brien in the headlines again with the Apr. 25 Naas maiden winner Emily Dickinson (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}). The daughter of Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) has a similar profile to her relative Magic Wand (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) at this stage of her career and has enticed Ryan Moore away from Ireland.

 

A Bargain Buy?

Shadwell opted to sell the unraced Rogue Millennium (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) for just 35,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale and that is already looking like a golden ticket after The Rogues Gallery's descendant of the legendary Doff the Derby won the same Wetherby novice on Apr. 24 which in 2021 was contested by Loving Dream (GB) (Gleneagles {Ire}) and this race's winner Sherbet Lemon (Lemon Drop Kid).

Trainer Tom Clover will be hoping she can “do a Makfi” and prove one that slipped through the net. “You'll ask her and she finds for you and it's hard to know how much is there,” he said.

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Sea The Stars Filly Earns Rising Star Tag at The Curragh

She may have been a shade slowly into stride for Saturday's Irish Stallions Farms EBF Maiden at The Curragh, but Moyglare Stud Farm's 2-year-old filly Eclat de Lumiere (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) was motoring at the business end of the seven-furlong contest to earn TDN Rising Star status with a degree of panache and become the 12th 'TDN Rising Star' for her sire. Overcoming a dawdling getaway and an unfavourable outside draw to track the leaders in sixth after the initial strides, the 7-2 chance made smooth headway into contention approaching the quarter-mile marker and kept on strongly once launching her challenge passing the furlong marker to deny the promising effort of Benitoite (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) by a half length.

“She's a lovely filly and she had been working nicely, but she's still a very big immature filly so whether I run her again this year or not is debatable,” said trainer Dermot Weld. “The ground was probably a shade softer than ideal for her and Colin [Keane] just thought she has plenty of pace. If I run her once more again it will be in a stakes race and that will be it. I'll discuss it with her owner Eva Maria Haefner. There is the [G3] CL Weld Park S., but I wouldn't the ground too soft as she's a very good actioned filly. She's a lovely filly for next year. She had the race won from a fair bit out today and is a lovely filly in the making.”

Eclat de Lumiere becomes the seventh scorer produced by a winning daughter of stakes-winning G3 Prix Penelope third Bellona (Ire) (Bering {GB}), herself a half-sister to three black-type performers headed by G3 Prix de Flore-winning matriarch In Clover (GB) (Inchinor {GB}). The April-foaled homebred chestnut, the latest foal for her dam, is a full-sister to G2 Prix du Conseil de Paris victrix Listen In (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) and a half to G1SW Hong Kong champion Dominant (Ire) (Cacique {Ire}), G2 Lennox S.-winning sire Es Que Love (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire}) and Listed Midsummer S. winner Zhui Feng (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}).

1st-Curragh, €16,500, Mdn, 8-21, 2yo, 7fT, 1:30.70, sf.
ECLAT DE LUMIERE (IRE), f, 2, by Sea the Stars (Ire)
1st Dam: Es Que (GB), by Inchinor (GB)
2nd Dam: Bellona (Ire), by Bering (GB)
3rd Dam: Bellarida (Fr), by Bellypha (Ire)
1ST-TIME STARTER. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $11,584. O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd (IRE); T-Dermot Weld. Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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